"All You Get from Love Is a Love Song" | ||||
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Single by Carpenters | ||||
from the album Passage | ||||
B-side | "I Have You" | |||
Released | May 2, 1977 | |||
Recorded | March 1977 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:46 | |||
Label | A&M 1940 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Steve Eaton | |||
Producer(s) | Richard Carpenter | |||
Carpenters singles chronology | ||||
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"All You Get from Love Is a Love Song" is a song composed by Steve Eaton. Previously recorded by The Righteous Brothers in 1975,[1] it was popularized by the Carpenters in 1977. It was released to the public on May 21, 1977. Its B-side was "I Have You", a song released on the A Kind of Hush album in 1976. The song was also included on their 1977 album, Passage.
In the late 1970s, this particular track appeared in a Top 10 of misheard lyrics (and is often on similar forums online).[citation needed] This was compiled by Noel Edmonds and the misheard lyric sounds like: "Because the best love songs are written with a broken arm," as opposed to the correct lyrics "Because the best love songs are written with a broken heart."[2]